Finger-ring.



A. SPANEY.

FINGER RING.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 3. 1915.

Patented Apr. 4, 1916.

INVENTOI? A LFRED SPA NEY WITNESSES. zalk' .Qayew QMMQM -fiw ATTORNEY ALFRED SPANEY, OF PIERMONT, NEW YORK.

FINGER-RING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 4, rare.

Application filed April 3, 1915. Serial No. 18,960.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, ALFRED SPANEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Piermont, Rockland county, in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Finger-Rings, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to improvements in jewelry, and the same has for its object more particularly to provide a ring comprising a plurality of parts or members of which certain may be Worn separately as complete rings or in combination with the remainder of said parts or'members; or with certain thereof only to form a complete ring. 3

Further, said invention has for its object to provide a ring comprising a complete ring member and a plurality, of supplemental ring members adapted to be fitted upon or conformed to saidmain ring mem: ber in order to increase the size of the ring.

Further, said invention has for its object to provide a ring comprising a plurality of members, the outerones of which are adapted to removably receive a complete ring member, and supplemental ring members whereby the designor the color scheme or jewel combination may be varied at will.

Further, said invention has for its object to provide a ring comprising a plurality of members which may be so assembled and secured together as to present the appearance of a single complete ring, and still permit of the removal or changing of some of its intermediate parts, at will.

To the attainment of the aforesaid objects and ends, my invention consists in the novel details of construction, and in the combination, connection and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described and then pointed out in the claims.

I In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, wherein like numerals of reference indicate like parts,F-igure 1 is a top view showing one-form of finger ring constructed according to and embodying my said invention; Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the main ring member combined with the adjoining supplemental ring member only; Fig. 3 1s a similar view showing the main ring member entirely separated from the supplemental ring members; Fig. 4 is a side view of the assembled ring shown in plan at Fig. 1; Fig. 5

" assembled relation.

is an end view of Fig. 4; Fig. 6 is a detail side view of the main ring member shown 1n plan at Fig. 3; Fig. 7 is a detail side v1ew showing the lower portions of the several ring members, the means for securmg the supplemental ring sections together .and for supporting the main ring member therein; the several parts being shown in separated relation, and Fig. 8 is a similar v1ew showmg the said parts in properly In the accompanying drawings the ring is shown composed of three parts or members of which the confined, inner or main ring member 10 is a complete ring, and is preferably tapered from its top to its bottom so as to be slightly wedge-shaped in appearance when viewed from itsedges. The opposite sides of said ring, at about its horizontal center, are provided with cutaway portions forming shoulders 11, 11. 12 denotes a first supplemental or confining ring member which is composed of two separated members 12 12,- arranged at slight angles to each other and united at their opposite sides by transverse connectmg members 13, 13, and at their lower central portion by two separated connecting members 13 13 arranged in separated relation to each other. The sides of said annular members 12, 12 are partly cut-.

away as far as the lower edges of the transverse connecting members 13, 13.

The upper horizontal edges of the connecting members 13, 13 serve as supports upon which the shoulders 11, 11 of the ring member 10 are adaptedto rest when said ring memberlO is inserted in position intermediate the members 12, 12 of the supplemental ring member 12. The lower edge of the ring memberlO is provided with a recess or notch 10 to receive the separated connecting members 13, 13 at the lower edge or base of the supplemental ring member 12.,

15 denotes the outer or second supplemental ring member which is also composedv of two annular parts 15, 15 united at their opposite sides by transverse connecting members 16, 16 whose upper surfaces serve as a support upon which the lower edges of the horizontal connecting members 13, 13, of

the first supplemental ring member12 are adapted to rest. The supplemental ring member 15 is further provided at its lower edge or base with a single connecting member 16 which is adapted to fit intermediate the two connecting members 13*, 13 when the several ring elements are assembled as shown at F igsI '1 and 4:.

When the ring is not upon the finger of the wearer, the several ring members or supplemental ring members 12 and 15 are so constructed, so far as ornamentation and design are concerned, that when the same are assembled, as shown at Fig.1, the several parts will form a harmonious symmetrical design. Further, the said members or parts are so constructed and arranged that the ring member 10 may be individually removed from the remaining supplemental ring members 12 and 15, without separating the latter from each other, and another ring member 10 having a different color of jewels substituted in place of the member removed; or only the supplemental ring member 12 may be removed and another substituted in place thereof, or the ring member 10 together with the surrounding supplemental ring member 12 minus the outer supplemental ring member 15 may be used as a complete ring.

It will be noted that by means of my improved ring. construction, I am enabled to provide a ring which may be varied or modified, at will, so far as color scheme of the jewels and ornamentation or design of the mountings are concerned, to make the ring harmonize orconform to the garment of the wearer or to permit of any arbitrary change or modification desired by the wearer.

Having thus described my said invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A finger ring of the character described comprising a main ring member, and an independent supplemental ring member conforming to said main ring member and embracing the same, substantially as specified.

2 A finger ring' of the character descr1bed comprising a main ring member, and an ndependent supplemental ring member conforming to said main ring member v independent supplemental ring member conforming to said main ring member and embracing the same, and means for holding said ring members properly positioned relaeach other, substantially as and a supplemental ring member composed of two' parts secured together in separated relation and frictionally embracing said main ring member, substantially as specified.

5. A finger ring of the character described comprising a main ring member, a supplemental ring member composed of two parts secured together in separated relation and receiving said main ring member intermediate the same, and means for holding said main ring member and supplemental ring member properly positioned relative to each other, substantially, as specified.

6. A finger ring of the character described comprising a main ring member, a supplemental ring member composed of two sections, means for securing said sections together in separated relation; said supplemental ring member receiving said main ring member, and means on said main ring member engaging with the securing means on said supplemental ring member for holding said main ring member properly positioned within said supplemental ring member, substantially as specified.

7. A finger ring of the character described comprising a main,complete ring member, a

supplemental ring member receiving said main ring member; said supplemental ring member being composed of two sections arranged in separated relation, and means for securing. said sections together at their opposite sides and at their bases, substantially as specified.

8; A finger ring of the character described comprising a main, complete ring member, and a supplemental ring member receiving said main ring member; said supplemental ring member'being composed of two axially 'alined sections arranged in separated relation to each other, and means for securing said sections together at their opposite sides and at their bases, substantially as specified.

9. A finger ring of the character described comprising a main,"complete ring member having shoulders at its opposite sides and a recess in its base, a first supplemental ring composed of two sections, connecting members at its opposite sides and at its base, and a second supplemental ring member also formed of two sections, connecting members at their opposite sides and at their bases; the recess in said main ring member, and the connecting members at the bases of said supplemental ring members, engaging with each other to hold said several ring elements duly positioned relative to each other, substantially as specified.

10. A finger ring of the character described comprising. a main, complete ring member,

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holding means arranged upon the periphery thereof, and a supplemental ring member receiving said main ring member; said supplemental' ring member being composedof two correspondingly-shaped sections arranged in separated relation and at slight angles to each other, and means for securing said supplemental ring sections together at their opposite sides and at their bases, said securing means serving further to engage with the holding means on said main ring member for maintaining the latter properly positioned Within said supplemental ring member, substantially as specified.

11. A finger ring of the character described comprising a complete ring member having said main ring member whereby to hold saidmain ring member properly positioned within said supplemental ring member, substantially as specified. V

12. A finger ring of the character described comprising a main, complete ring member, holding means arranged upon the periphery thereof, a first supplemental ring member receiving said main ring member; said supplemental ring member being composed of two correspondingly-shaped sections arranged in separated relation to each other, means for securing said supplemental ring sections together, serving also to engage the holding means on said main ring member,

and a second supplemental ring member composed of two correspondingly-shaped sections secured together in separated relation and receiving said main ring member and said first supplemental ring member jointly therein, substantially as specified.

Signed at the city of New York, in the county and State of New York, this 31st day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

' ALFRED SPANEY. Witnesses:

CONRAD A. DIETERIOH. JOHN H. BLIGH. 

